"the chaos on our southern border reminds us of the perils of taking our eye off the ball and allowing our own hemisphere to become a victim of strategic neglect here in Washington."
"The need to climate-proof key military installations can be readily handled by seawalls, improved infrastructure reliance, and, as the worst case, relocation of bases to less vulnerable locations."
"We need to rework that arsenal. We have capped our number of nuclear weapons."
"the Naval Academy and other bases also, which is also a problem, is a lot of these bases were built on fill and certainly the Naval Academy a lot of it is on fill."
"I think what they are trying to do is take money out of one pocket and put it in the other pocket."
"I mean, there is going to be a future President at some point, maybe President Sanders, who may want to create a national emergency and move money into Health and Human Services."
"I think that all of us, I don't care which side of the aisle that you are on, if this kind of activity is to continue, we are going to, as Members of Congress, lose control of the appropriating proces..."
"Don't you think it is a little bit ironic that we are buying this from the Chinese military? I mean, that is--whoa."
"if it wasn't for Brad Wenstrup, we would have lost our colleague, Steve Scalise."
"I have been with those teams that go out and look for people who are missing in action in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia a number of years ago."
"I am all for having more pharmaceutical development within the United States and its territories, because, you know, 95 percent of all vaccines right now are coming out of China."